The happiness of witty and attractive aristocrat
Georgiana Spencer (Keira Knightley) was thwarted when she was set up
and trapped in an emotionally-distant arranged marriage with callous but regal and powerful Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish (Ralph Fiennes). She became the Duchess of Devonshire.

Although Georgiana was a faithful
spouse, she was unable to produce a male heir (at first) for her philandering
husband and found love instead with rising politician and childhood
sweetheart Charles Grey (Dominic Cooper).

During a secret meeting with
him when he noticed that she was upset, he asked:

Charles: "Would it help
to unburden yourself?...Please tell me what is wrong."
Duchess: "I fear I've done some things in life
too late and others too early."

They kissed, and then when he apologized for
overstepping his bounds, she kissed him a second time more passionately.

Later, after bearing a son for her husband, she engaged
in an extra-marital affair with Charles on several occasions, notably
during a vacation (without her husband) at Bath. She rebelled
against the double-standard imposed by her loathsome husband who had
his own live-in mistress - her own friend, divorcee Lady Elizabeth
'Bess' Foster (Hayley Atwell).

Georgiana's affair produced a love-child, which she
had to give up in the film's most tear-jerking scene.

Hancock (2008)

An AllHeart Kiss

In the epilogue of this fantasy/comedy super-hero film
set in present-day Los Angeles, super-hero Mary Embrey (Charlize Theron)
kissed her struggling public relations agent husband Ray (Jason Bateman).

Although she was an immortal super-hero, she had chosen
to be mortal and vulnerable, wishing to: "Love, connect, grow
old, die." She
had separated from her superhero husband 'John Hancock' (Will Smith)
for the last time so that he could continue to save people and lives.
She
knew that if they were together as superheroes, they would weaken and
die:

"You're
built to save people more than the rest of us. That's who you are. You're
a hero. The insurance policy of the gods. Keep one alive. You. To protect
this world."

With a phone call, Hancock
revealed that he had been on the moon, painting it with Ray's logo
to advertise it to the entire world - the "AllHeart
Symbol" representing
world-changing charitable giving.

He called Ray (and family) and
told him as the loving couple kissed in front of the symbol that everyone could see:

"You're
gonna change the world. Good job, Ray."

Ray asked himself about the defacement: "Will
I get in trouble for that?"

Milk (2008)

Gay Kiss

Gay activist and San Francisco's City Supervisor and
community organizer Harvey Milk (Sean Penn) expressed a brazen love
of life and a quest to bring gay rights and support the disenfranchised
over a six year period.

In one of the earliest scenes in the film, the closeted
corporate NY insurance salesman met up in a
subway corridor with one of the future loves of his life -- Scott Smith
(James Franco). In the pick-up scene, he proposed to
kiss him before he turned 40 (at midnight). He asked:

"You're
not gonna let me spend my birthday all by myself, are you?"

They experienced an almost spontaneous kiss-on-the-lips.
They then proceeded to Harvey's apartment where they listened
to 33 rpm records, drank wine, and ended up in bed together where they
shared birthday cake.

15 year-old virginal German schoolboy
Michael Berg (David Kross, and Ralph Fiennes as a German lawyer in
adulthood)

They first met after a chance meeting when she helped
him as he was suffering from the onset of scarlet fever.

A few months
later, she bathed him and dried him off, while nude herself, after
he had dirtied himself with coal dust in her apartment's basement.

Their first
physical encounter was initiated by her as she stood behind him and
realized his sexual excitement. She bluntly stated: "So that's
why you came back." She turned him around as he told her: "You're
so beautiful." She asked: "What are you talking about?" and
kissed him gently on the lips. She then said: "Look at me, kid" -
forever after calling him 'kid.' He eagerly reciprocated the kiss and
she instructed: "Slowly,
slowly, shh..." as she tenderly kissed him again.

In the next scene
at his family's dinner table, he was preoccupied in his erotic thoughts,
remembering their first sexual intercourse together that afternoon.

They
would continue having sex on a regular basis, after which he would read
literature outloud to her (The Odyssey, Huckleberry Finn, and The
Lady with the Little Dog, among others).

Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

"This Is Our Destiny" Kiss

In this rags to riches Bollywood-like film, Mumbai "slumdog"
Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) (now a millionaire after appearing
on a game show) expressed a life-long devotion to the female 'third
musketeer' in a trio of orphaned children.

They experienced a fairy-tale ending
of a kiss at the train station. When he spotted her across the way,
he crossed the tracks to meet her on the platform (with quick flash-backed
images of his long journey), and they spoke:

He removed her
head covering and noticed the long thin scar (on the left side of her
face) that she had received from one of her abductors during an earlier aborted rescue. He lovingly kissed her
scar (the film reversed itself and he saw her from above on the train
platform before the kidnapping), and then told her:

"This
is our destiny."

She replied: "Kiss me" before he kissed
her on the lips.

The image froze and slowly
dissolved to black, with choice "D: It is written" superimposed
on the screen.

Twilight (2008)

Resisting the Deadly Consequences of a Kiss

This popular romantic vampire film (directed by Catherine
Hardwicke), based on Stephenie Meyer's novel of the same name (and
the first in the film series), featured a strained,
teenaged love relationship - one that was unconsummated and involved
dangerous attraction - between:

Their first dramatic kissing scene
was in her bedroom, where he often watched her sleep because it was "fascinating" to
him. He told her:

"I always want to try one thing. Just stay very
still. Don't move."

As he slightly gasped, he moved
closer and pecked her on the lips. Then she hungrily reciprocated and
grabbed his head. They both panted as she fell back on her bed with
him on top of her, still kissing. But then he suddenly jumped back
and commanded: "Stop
it." She apologized: "I'm sorry." He replied: "I'm
stronger than I thought," but she felt otherwise: "Yeah.
I wish I could say the same."

He revealed his major fear: "I
can't ever lose control with you." Without sexually consummating
their love, he remained with her for the night.

In the final tearjerking romantic scene between the young
couple, they were dancing at their high school prom under an outdoor
lighted gazebo (to the tune of "Flightless Bird, American Mouth,"
performed by Iron & Wine: "Have I found you? Flightless bird,
jealous, weeping, Or lost you? American mouth Big pill looming").

Bella professed
her dying love for him. She
suggested becoming a vampire to be with him forever, but
he refused to make her into a "monster":

Bella: "...Why did you
save me? You should've just let the venom spread. I could be like
you by now."
Edward: "You don't know what you're saying. You don't want this."
Bella: "I want you. Always."
Edward: "I'm not gonna end your life for you."
Bella: "I'm dying, already. Every second, I get closer, older."
Edward: "That's the way it's supposed to be."
Bella: "Alice said that she saw me like you. I heard her."
Edward: "Her visions change."
Bella: "Yeah, based on what people decide.
I've
decided."
Edward: "So that's what you dream about? Becoming a monster."
Bella: "I
dream about being with you, forever."
Edward: "Forever?" (She nodded) "And you're ready right
now?"
Bella: "Yes." (She surrendered her neck to him)
Edward: "Is
it not enough just to have a long and happy life with me?"
Bella: "Yeah.
For now." (They kissed)
(voice-over) "No one will surrender tonight, but I won't
give in. I know what I want."

Their first kiss was
in outer space when EVE touched her helmet to WALL·E's binoculars
and caused a spark, making him float backwards in ecstasy - the prelude
to a spectacular space dance sequence.

And then in the film's conclusion,
a crushed and 'dead' WALL·E had to be rebuilt by EVE. She used
his own spare parts collection to reconstruct him. WALL·E appeared
to have lost his acquired sentience, personality and memories. But then,
WALL·E remembered
who EVE was after they clapsed 'hands', and
she lightly touched her forehead to his (causing a small spark of recognition).
WALL·E came to life and they enjoyed another longer kiss together.